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Shelfmark:	20058-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France)	Suggestions & Corrections
Type:	instrument
Dimension:	H.: 13; W.: 16; Mass: 160 g.

Component's data
Thematic group:	Instruments
Type:	mask
Abstract:	A thin sheet-iron mask to cover the face with perforated nose and mouth piece and circular glass eye pieces in protruding fixtures. This would seem to have been made for and used in the classic experiments on respiration and transpiration

Related components	(4)

bibliography
	journal Journal of the American Medical Association
		bibliographic reference	Mementoes of Lavoisier; notes on a trip to Chateau de la Caniere...
	book Die experimentelle Method
		bibliographic reference	Die experimentelle Methode der ersten Gasstoffwechseluntersuchungen am ruhenden und quantifiziert be...
	book Exposition au Palais de l
		bibliographic reference	Exposition au Palais de la Découverte, à l'occasion du deuxième centenaire de la naissance de Lavois...
description of
	painting
		portrait	Expériences sur la respiration de l'homme au travail...

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Attributes
Person	City	Cronology	Position
name: -	name: Paris	date/range: 1952 date of: donation epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier resp.: owner	name: Paris	date/range: 1790 date of: construction epoch: 18 (2°)

Subject/s
	Discipline	Topic		Argument
	Chemistry		Respiration	Experiments

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